Lab Practical 2

Question 1

what plants are in the phylum Pterophyta?

Answer 1

ferns, horsetails, whisk ferns

Question 2

what plants are in the phylum Lycophyta?

Answer 2

club mosses

Question 3

Answer 3

Polytrichum sp.

antheridium (male part)

bryophyta, moss

Question 4

Answer 4

Polytrichum sp.

archegonium (female)

bryophyta, moss

Question 5

Answer 5

fern gametophyte

Question 6

Answer 6

Marchantia sp.

archegonia (female)

Question 7

Answer 7

Marchantia sp.

antheridia (male)

Question 8

what is this?

Answer 8

anther

Question 9

what is this?

Answer 9

stigma

Question 10

Define gemmae cups

Answer 10

lenshaped outgrowths called gemmae that are another means of asexual reproduction. These are splashed off by falling raindrops. Used by mosses

Question 11

what is this?

Answer 11

receptacle

Question 12

what are the 2 types of fruits?

Answer 12

dry and fleshy

Question 13

A sporophyte is attached to the gametyphyte by a structure called..

Answer 13

A foot.

Question 14

what is this?

Answer 14

ovary

Question 15

All ferns and fern allies posses..

Answer 15

sporophylls: leaf like structures of the sporophyte generation that bear spores.

Question 16

what are the 4 types of embryo development in seeds?

Answer 16

globular, heart, torpedo, mature

Question 17

what type of fruit is a strawberry?

Answer 17

fleshy aggregate

Question 18

Name examples of seedless vascular plants in the Pterophyta phylum

Answer 18

Ferns, horsetails and whisk ferns

Question 19

what type of fruit is a tomato?

Answer 19

a fleshy berry

(mostly ovary)

Question 20

Name examples of seedless vascular plants in the lycophyta phylum

Answer 20

club mosses

Question 21

wha type of fruit is a pea?

Answer 21

dry legume

Question 22

How do fern sporophytes grow?

Answer 22

They grow indefinitely via underground stems called rhizomes

Question 23

what type of fruit is an apple?

Answer 23

fleshy pome

Question 24

what kind of fruit is a sunflower seed?

Answer 24

dry achene

Question 25

Groups of sporangia are called...

Answer 25

sori and form underneath fern fronds

Question 27

Gymnosperms produce exposed seeds borne on scale-like structures called..

Answer 27

cones

Question 28

Occur in male gymnosperms and form male cone/gametophytes

Answer 28

microspores

Question 30

what is the phylum of pinus?

Answer 30

coniferophyta

Question 31

what is the phylum of zamia?

Answer 31

cycadophyta

Question 32

Occur in female gymnosperms and form female cones and gametophytes

Answer 32

megaspores

Question 33

what is the phylum of ginkgo?

Answer 33

ginkgophyta

Question 35

what is the phylum of alstromeria?

Answer 35

anthophyta

Question 36

what is the phylum of capsella?

Answer 36

anthophyta

Question 37

what are the dots under the leaves of ferns called?

Answer 37

sori

Question 38

which fern was in a blue pot?

Answer 38

zamia sp.

Question 39

what is this?

Answer 39

Polytrichum sp.

Question 40

what is this?